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A Green Paper is being drafted to seek ways to reduce drug abuse and increase rehabilitation.
The Department for National Drug Control is putting together the document in line with a Throne Speech pledge by the Progressive Labour Party.
It is expecte...
DATE: Mar 16, 2018
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News Staff
“Overly generous” office space will be reduced for Bermuda Government workers in a cost-cutting move.
Space for department heads will be cut by up to two-thirds and space for general staff will be reduced by 35 per cent, Lieutenant-Colonel David Burc...
DATE: Mar 16, 2018
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News Staff
Students with financial difficulties can take advantage of more accessible scholarships, education minister Diallo Rabain told the House of Assembly.
Mr Rabain gave details on the following award programmes he said would help create a more “diverse B...
DATE: Mar 16, 2018
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Politics
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News Staff
National security minister Wayne Caines told the House of Assembly details about a trip taken by Bermuda representatives to the Montgomery Summit.
• To read Mr Caines’s statement in full, click on the PDF under “Related Media”
DATE: Mar 16, 2018
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Politics
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News Staff
Health minister Kim Wilson outlined efforts made to improve the health workforce.
Ms Wilson told the House of Assembly the Ministry of Health was aiming to “improve health, social and economic development outcomes by ensuring universal availability, ...
DATE: Mar 16, 2018
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Politics
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News Staff
Tough new rules to crack down on sexual harassment at work are in the pipeline.
Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs, said yesterday that he wanted to introduce new labour laws to combat the problem.
Mr Brown is to bring London-based feminist M...
DATE: Mar 08, 2018
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Politics
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News Staff
Lack of money will never be a barrier to learning, the education minister pledged yesterday.
Diallo Rabain said more than 300 students in financial need had benefited from grants at Bermuda College during the autumn and spring terms of 2017-18.
Mr Ra...
DATE: Mar 03, 2018
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Politics
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News Staff
A showcase of the latest hands-on learning opportunities is to be followed up by a fair later this year, the national security minister announced today.
Wayne Caines said organisers of January’s Youth Maker Showcase at CedarBridge Academy — part of t...
DATE: Mar 02, 2018
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Politics
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News Staff
David Burt, the Premier and Minister of Finance, today delivered the Budget Statement for 2018-19.
Here are the main highlights:
• “This Budget will ease the burdens for the single mother and the struggling family with a tax cut that will increase th...
DATE: Feb 16, 2018
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Politics
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News Staff
Progressive Labour Party politicians will hold a meet and greet at Elliot Primary School on Saturday.
Senator Vance Campbell, MPs Chris Famous and Diallo Rabain and General Election candidate Ernest Peets will talk with residents from Constituencies ...
DATE: Jan 31, 2018
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Politics
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News Staff